Lexical Summary Tsaphenath Paneach: "the god speaks and he lives", Joseph's Eg. name Original Word: צָפְנַת פַעְנֵחַTransliteration: Tsaphenath Paneach Phonetic Spelling: (tsof-nath' pah-nay'-akh) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: "the god speaks and he lives", Joseph's Eg. name Meaning: Zaphenath-paneah -- "the god speaks and he lives", Joseph's Egyptian name Strong's Concordance Zaphnath-paaneah Of Egyptian derivation; Tsophnath-Paneach, Joseph's Egyptian name -- Zaphnath-paaneah. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6847. Tsaphenath Paneach מַּעְנֵהַ צָֽפְנַת proper name, masculine (< vocaliz. ‚apn§t§ph ±œn— i.e. the god speaks and he lives, Egyptian D(d)-pnt(r)-§f-±n— (D§-pnut§-ef-±œn—), see SteindÄZ 1889, 41 f.; 1892. 50 ff., so EbSmith DB (2), 1798 b Brugsch, see DrHast. ii. 775a n. §, Crumib. i. 665 b Griffith ib.iii. 819 b); — Egyptian name given to Joseph Genesis 41:45, Ψονθομφανηχ, ᵐ5 L Ψομʹ. I. צפע (√ of following; meaning dubious, perhaps hiss, onomatopoetic, so Thes; Late Hebrew צִפְעוֺן = Biblical Hebrew). |
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